PIONEER CDJ-1000 MK3 DJ-WORKSTATION

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The DJM-400 is tailored to the demands of DJs mixing in bars and smaller clubs and those mobile artists who demand a reliable, robust and high-quality mixer.

To do so you simply need to press the Rekordbox button on the XDJ-1000’s touchscreen and press the rotary selector to enable the connection. The mechanical resistance of the jog wheel was adjustable to suit different styles of handling by the DJ. I’m mostly happy with the XDJ-1000’s control surface, and you’ll certainly have no problem migrating from a pair of XDJ-1000’s at home to a CDJ-1000, CDJ-900NXS or CDJ-2000NXS in a club. If you’ve created a 16-beat loop, for instance, entering Slip Mode and pressing a loop button will switch off the outer loop. You can create loops using the physical In, Out and Reloop loop controls, adjust the in and out points and create a 4-beat panic loop by pressing the In button for around a second.Also when scratching, I found that the XDJ-1000 would sometimes take a moment longer than I’d expected to start playing again. Ordinarily, the centre of the screen is filled with a large waveform showing the currently playing section of a song so that you can see the waveform, upcoming breakdowns and so on more clearly. With additional creative possibilities for live re-mixing easily accessible via the new hot loop feature.

Unlike previous models of CDJ, the CDJ-3000 has no CD drive, making it similar to Pioneer's XDJ line of DJ media players such as the XDJ-1000MK2 which lacked CD drives. Indeed, the fact it now has a crossfader and synchronisation and phase adjustment buttons means it’s a pretty good and free introduction to DJing in its own right. The mixer features an Auto BPM function as well as a broad range of beat effects that give you complete control over effect intensity. Before its introduction, few clubs adopted CD decks, either due to their lack of DJ functionality and overall robustness, or due to the fact that DJs still preferred the vinyl format, as most of the music they played was still far more prevalent on vinyl than CD media.It only happened every now and again and it’s possibly a performance issue on my part, but it doesn’t happen on my CDJ-1000MK3, didn’t happen on the CDJ-2000 and I’d rather not experience it. This meant I twisted the pot to the far left for instant start-up and stops, which wasted the feature. It was similar in size to the CDJ-100S, however features such as MP3 playback capabilities and loop functions were added or improved. The CDJ-500 (known as the Mark 1 once the second version was released) was recognized by Pioneer DJ as their first CDJ CD player, released in 1994. Its resolution has been doubled, the lighting is multicolour and fluorescent and, as well as displaying the total number of tracks and track position, the WAVE data and playing address details are extended so that a DJ can see a track's entire length at a glance.

Cons – The Slip Mode feature kicks you out of an existing loop if you try to stutter a sub-loop within it, while the Rekordbox mobile app is a nice idea but it adds complexity and many will prefer to use a normal USB flash drive with tracks exported from a Rekordbox on a PC. G.B Lighting behind the acrylic frontage, remote controlled to set primary colours and flashing random setting. Many pro audio companies such as Gemini, Denon DJ, Numark, Stanton, and Vestax produced DJ quality CD players. The misconception is possibly caused by the fact that while Pioneer's earlier dual deck CD-player, the CMX-5000, only had a jog wheel comparable to earlier single deck CD-players for doing pitch bending, the CMX-3000 also allowed distinct jog mode that enabled the user to use the jog wheel for scratching, a feature that thus far was only available on the top-of-the line CDJ-1000. The XDJ-1000’s large, seven inch pressure-sensitive touchscreen is laid out to good effect, with menu buttons occupying the left-hand side and top of the screen, specific screens appearing in the middle and items you’d expect to see on a CDJ, such as a long waveform, pitch range and the position of cue points are positioned at the bottom.With a bass drum assigned to the first hot-cue button and a snare assigned to second hot-cue button, and with Quantize disabled, we’d occasionally press the second hot-cue button and nothing would happen because we’d pressed it too soon after pressing the first hot-cue button.

The CMX-3000 was Pioneer's second attempt to enter the market of rack-mountable dual deck CD-players. With additional creative possibilities for live re-mixing easily accessible via the new hot loop feature and with gold RCA connectors to maximise the high fidelity sound, the CDJ-1000MK3 puts your performance first! Conveniently, you still get a large, side-scrolling waveform in the Perform screen, although it’s a half-waveform. For the travelling DJ, the unit was multi-system, outputting both PAL and NTSC video signals for near-global compatibility.The high-quality powder coating is resistant to scratches and other negative environmental influences. The Decksaver cover provides comprehensive protection against dust, spills, and accidental impacts, ensuring that your CDJ-1000 remains in pristine condition. thanks to the hard work of our then newly appointed direct retailers, installers and established distribution, as well as the DJs who instantly recognised it as the first real practical DJ CD player, it very quickly became an industry standard fixture in the DJ booth. It quickly became the industry standard and was widely adopted in most clubs and mobile DJs throughout the 90s up until 2004 when Pioneer made an impact with the CDJ-1000.